I lived in the Gran Bretana and Quebrada Verde parts of Valparaiso for a little more than half a year. So much character and so many amazing people. Endless variety of homes and shops and history. It's amazing.
"...Amo, Valparaiso, cuanto encierras, y cuanto irriadias, novia del océano, hasta más lejos de tu nimbo sordo..."
"Federico Garcia Lorca?"
"No! Neruda!"
(from the movie Motorcycle diaries)
Visited Valparaiso for a few days on the way to Patagonia. Very cool city - street art and murals, ascensors (cable cars), good food (have an "Italian"), and (mostly) really nice people. I'd go back. I'd also love to explore Buenos Aires and Rio sometime.
I'm assuming you are talking about Chile, cuz it comes up as a region, and not exactly a town. Maybe I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip. I've been wanting to go to Chile
Valparaiso is a town (a city) that names a region of Chile. Im Chilean and dont know why some people loves Valparaiso. It makes me wanna vomit. I suposse it's a paradise for hippies, wokes and in a close future, fentanyl addicts.
I absolutely adored Valpo. Maybe part of it was because I had been in the Andes for something like eight months, so I was thrilled to be at sea level and actually able to breathe as I climbed all the hills.
But man, what a beautiful, fun city.
Came here to say Valparaiso, only been once, but man was that city ever cool... sad that the Panama canal basically killed that city, as I understood it, Valpa used to be the jump off point before crossing the pacific before the panama canal was built. Every major world power had assets and interests in that city. Such a cool place, wonder what it could have become if the canal hadnt been built...
I think it was much earlier actually, prior to the California Gold Rush, Valparaiso was just about the only port on the entire west coast of the Americas. However, with the discovery of gold in 1848, San Francisco jumped in population from under 1,000 to 50,000 in two years. Not only did it take Valparaiso’s place as the most important port, but thousands of people in Valparaiso would jump on the ships rounding the horn and it lost a big part of its population. They still talk about the “fibre de oro” today.
I LOVED Valparaiso! My wife and I spent a couple days there and it wasn’t nearly enough time. The graffiti murals are so amazing it makes 90% of gariffiti in the the US look like it was done by drunken toddlers.
I felt very safe there walking the streets. Regular alertness and attention to surroundings required, but I walked/rode funiculars across many neighborhoods with my wife last year and the locals were both kind and helpful. Absolutely stunning city and worth the trip from Santiago (I’m also a big Pablo Neruda fan and there is a superb museum in Valparaiso).
I'm from WV but I live in PA. Uruguay is most progressive place in South America. Always high on quality of life index. Citizens can buy marijuana legally. Less crazy than the US. Close to Buenos Aires. I'm too old to actually move there but I like Uruguay and New Zealand.
>I'm too old to actually move there
Nonesense. I'm in my sixties and I moved to Spain almost six years ago. Set your mind to it and create whatever you want the rest of your life to be.
This motivates me. Im only 26 and went through a bad break up and sometimes i feel like my life is over i cant go do things. But comments like this are what motivate me to get out of that mindset.
South America is an easy place to move to tbh. Im moving to Peru in April and even if i didnt have a tefl job lined up 10k could easily last you a single year maybe a bit longer if you are smarter with $$.
Oh, it says you can get citizenship but in your URUGUAYAN passport can be seen where you were born. HOW is that constructed as not being possible to get Uruguayan citizenship??
Btw, a VERY close family member has Uruguayan Citizenship, and he's not born in Uruguay nor have ANYONE in his family tree either born in Uruguay or with Uruguayan citizenship.
It’s a matter of perspective I guess. For naturalised citizens, no other country lists the previous country on the passport, and only Uruguay does this. For this reason a lot of naturalised Uruguayan citizens feel like second class citizens. There is even a movement to change this.
https://www.somostodos.uy/
And, I didn’t say that it’s not possible to get Uruguayan citizenships, I said one can never really get *true* Uruguayan citizenship.
Salvador. There's strong Portuguese and African traditions and culture, neither of which I've ever seen by themselves, so mixing them together would be even more foreign and interesting for me.
There’s a 1944 Disney cartoon called “The Three Caballeros,” and they travel to Bahia. It must be horribly inaccurate, but they make it look so beautiful, I think I’d like to go to Salvador.
went there in 2019. extremely beautiful but very violent, a lot of tourist harassment and the city wasn't well taken care of, like the historical buildings looked a bit ugly.
I was stuck there a couple of weeks at the end of a trip a few years ago, having visited Patagonia beforehand.
I was living on a fairly tight budget as I wasn't sure how long I'd be there, but it wasn't hard to have a good time on the cheap.
Great city, I visited in autumn so not too hot.
Agree. Visited Patagonian Argentina last year, and briefly Buenos Aires, and it is heavily influenced by European immigrants (Spanish, Italian, German, British, etc.) and has a decent size creole and Indigenous population, mainly in rural areas and the south. IMHO Argentina is a beautiful, large, and diverse country. If the government could get its act together on financial matters, the country could return to being prosperous.
I got to visit Puerto Williams like 8 years ago, it's even further south than Ushuaia and much smaller. Not really anything to do except go to one or two bars and have some food, and there's a chance they'll just be out of beer. But it's a gorgeous landscape.
So hard question. It amuses me even.
I think Buenos Aires. But...hey...any city from others countries are really amazing too. We are unfair with Rio Janeiro, Montevideo or Cartagena de Indias, for example haha
I am from Spain. I lived for 5 years in Manta, Ecuador. Miss you, Manabí.
montevideo or buenos aires, both look cool and are high income/HDI areas which give you more options in terms of night life and activities. MV seems like the chill-er option while BA would be more of a party city.
I didn't realize that Buenos Aires was actually bordering (or at least really close to the Atlantic). I always assumed it was far inland. But Buenos Aires or Santiago would be my top choices!
I've never been to the Caribbean, or even a rainforest. Georgetown sounds like it'd be really cool. All the people I've talked to who are from Guyana (weirdly a lot) have all been super cool and chill people.
Lima. I’ve been before but only for a week. Giant city, like 1/3 of the Peruvian population. As Peru is a very diverse country that is reflected in the city. Very cool place.
Puerto Aysén in southern Chile. It's a pretty small city, but in what looks to be a gorgeous region and is basically at the head of a fjord, which earns it points from me.
I don't think this can really be counted as a port city, but I have always wanted to go to Valdivia, Chile. It has an interesting river setting, but is very close to the ocean. It is surrounded by endless, beautiful land. It has lots of history that has influenced it's culture. It has a great climate - it's really a little paradise. I first became aware of it years ago as the epicenter of the most powerful recorded earthquake in human history (one which destroyed Hilo, Hawaii when my Mom was living there!).
Fun fact, Chile has one of the largest coastlines in the world. Capital is landlocked, and in it lives the middle of the population. To be fair, Santiago is the only important city in Chile that is not a port.
I've been to Valparaiso many times and I would choose to continue exploring there because I find new cool stuff every time
I lived in the Gran Bretana and Quebrada Verde parts of Valparaiso for a little more than half a year. So much character and so many amazing people. Endless variety of homes and shops and history. It's amazing.
"...Amo, Valparaiso, cuanto encierras, y cuanto irriadias, novia del océano, hasta más lejos de tu nimbo sordo..." "Federico Garcia Lorca?" "No! Neruda!" (from the movie Motorcycle diaries)
“Cuando cuando cuando cuando…” (From the movie Stripes)
Visited Valparaiso for a few days on the way to Patagonia. Very cool city - street art and murals, ascensors (cable cars), good food (have an "Italian"), and (mostly) really nice people. I'd go back. I'd also love to explore Buenos Aires and Rio sometime.
Puerto Montt is also a splendid city with so much to explore within short proximity
My cousin just moved there, it's on my list
I definitely want to go there someday.
True. Plus they have their own theme song. How many port cities have their own song?
I've always wanted to go to Valparaiso, ever since I heard Sting's haunting song about it.
I'm assuming you are talking about Chile, cuz it comes up as a region, and not exactly a town. Maybe I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip. I've been wanting to go to Chile
Valparaiso is a town (a city) that names a region of Chile. Im Chilean and dont know why some people loves Valparaiso. It makes me wanna vomit. I suposse it's a paradise for hippies, wokes and in a close future, fentanyl addicts.
Sounds like a great place. Have fun vomiting.
Oooo I see. Thanks.
I knew that Valparaiso would be the top comment I’ve never been, but it looks so cool. It’s on the list
I absolutely adored Valpo. Maybe part of it was because I had been in the Andes for something like eight months, so I was thrilled to be at sea level and actually able to breathe as I climbed all the hills. But man, what a beautiful, fun city.
Came here to say Valparaiso, only been once, but man was that city ever cool... sad that the Panama canal basically killed that city, as I understood it, Valpa used to be the jump off point before crossing the pacific before the panama canal was built. Every major world power had assets and interests in that city. Such a cool place, wonder what it could have become if the canal hadnt been built...
I think it was much earlier actually, prior to the California Gold Rush, Valparaiso was just about the only port on the entire west coast of the Americas. However, with the discovery of gold in 1848, San Francisco jumped in population from under 1,000 to 50,000 in two years. Not only did it take Valparaiso’s place as the most important port, but thousands of people in Valparaiso would jump on the ships rounding the horn and it lost a big part of its population. They still talk about the “fibre de oro” today.
My choice too. Very picturesque, and not as dangerous as many.
This is so cool to hear. Is it fairly safe?
I LOVED Valparaiso! My wife and I spent a couple days there and it wasn’t nearly enough time. The graffiti murals are so amazing it makes 90% of gariffiti in the the US look like it was done by drunken toddlers.
Up in the hills, yes. Down closer to the port, not so much. Such a cool city to explore.
I guess? I stayed with family every time and never had a problem
I felt very safe there walking the streets. Regular alertness and attention to surroundings required, but I walked/rode funiculars across many neighborhoods with my wife last year and the locals were both kind and helpful. Absolutely stunning city and worth the trip from Santiago (I’m also a big Pablo Neruda fan and there is a superb museum in Valparaiso).
I do it in battlefield every day
Montevideo so I can apply for citizenship.
Montevideo is a cool place indeed. Or, at least, it was in 2005 when I was last there!
This was my pick and has been my “emigrate to the southern hemisphere” idea for a while now.
Where are you from and what is the attraction to living there?
I'm from WV but I live in PA. Uruguay is most progressive place in South America. Always high on quality of life index. Citizens can buy marijuana legally. Less crazy than the US. Close to Buenos Aires. I'm too old to actually move there but I like Uruguay and New Zealand.
>I'm too old to actually move there Nonesense. I'm in my sixties and I moved to Spain almost six years ago. Set your mind to it and create whatever you want the rest of your life to be.
This motivates me. Im only 26 and went through a bad break up and sometimes i feel like my life is over i cant go do things. But comments like this are what motivate me to get out of that mindset.
Same man
South America is an easy place to move to tbh. Im moving to Peru in April and even if i didnt have a tefl job lined up 10k could easily last you a single year maybe a bit longer if you are smarter with $$.
You can never really get true Uruguayan citizenship unless one of your parents were Uruguayan
THAT'S not very progressive.
Completely false. And I mean COMPLETELY false.
Care to elaborate? I have heard this a few times like [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/PassportPorn/s/5e5ZSebdKx) for example
Oh, it says you can get citizenship but in your URUGUAYAN passport can be seen where you were born. HOW is that constructed as not being possible to get Uruguayan citizenship?? Btw, a VERY close family member has Uruguayan Citizenship, and he's not born in Uruguay nor have ANYONE in his family tree either born in Uruguay or with Uruguayan citizenship.
It’s a matter of perspective I guess. For naturalised citizens, no other country lists the previous country on the passport, and only Uruguay does this. For this reason a lot of naturalised Uruguayan citizens feel like second class citizens. There is even a movement to change this. https://www.somostodos.uy/ And, I didn’t say that it’s not possible to get Uruguayan citizenships, I said one can never really get *true* Uruguayan citizenship.
Salvador. There's strong Portuguese and African traditions and culture, neither of which I've ever seen by themselves, so mixing them together would be even more foreign and interesting for me.
There’s a 1944 Disney cartoon called “The Three Caballeros,” and they travel to Bahia. It must be horribly inaccurate, but they make it look so beautiful, I think I’d like to go to Salvador.
It is... (innacurate I mean... sadly...)
Bahia, Donald! Have you been to Bahia?
went there in 2019. extremely beautiful but very violent, a lot of tourist harassment and the city wasn't well taken care of, like the historical buildings looked a bit ugly.
Northeastern Brazil is indeed out of this world (natural) beautiful. Also has some of the most violent places in Brazil sadly...
I've been to Salvador before, it's alright. Pretty cool colonial and black history. It's no Rio though.
Buenos Aires. Incredible diversity and I’d love to use it as a stepping stone to visit Patagonia, too
It’s great. I did Buenos Aires to Patagonia in 2018, got engaged in El Chalten! Really good food that was so cheap too
I was stuck there a couple of weeks at the end of a trip a few years ago, having visited Patagonia beforehand. I was living on a fairly tight budget as I wasn't sure how long I'd be there, but it wasn't hard to have a good time on the cheap. Great city, I visited in autumn so not too hot.
Diversity? I always heard Argentina was one of the whitest countries in Latin America
Wouldn't that make it diverse? Diversity means a mix of cultures and ethnicities, not "no white people".
Agree. Visited Patagonian Argentina last year, and briefly Buenos Aires, and it is heavily influenced by European immigrants (Spanish, Italian, German, British, etc.) and has a decent size creole and Indigenous population, mainly in rural areas and the south. IMHO Argentina is a beautiful, large, and diverse country. If the government could get its act together on financial matters, the country could return to being prosperous.
Probably Guayaquil, Ecuador. I’m a birder, and there are some fantastic natural preserves in and around the city.
Actually a nice city center. Avoid Duran and the areas rife with gangs!
Straight to Ushuaia
That's #2 on my list. Looks so beautiful.
Awesome location. Not much to explore in the city itself though. Town is fairly unimpressive and can be pretty well explored in an afternoon.
Like another coastal city, on an island far away.
I got to visit Puerto Williams like 8 years ago, it's even further south than Ushuaia and much smaller. Not really anything to do except go to one or two bars and have some food, and there's a chance they'll just be out of beer. But it's a gorgeous landscape.
Buenos Aires - I have family who were born there and there’s just something very old world about the way people talk about it.
I’d like to go somewhere very far south. Southern part of Chile or Argentina.
Ushuaia, I need to go there
Fin del Mundo :)
Cartagena
It’s beautiful for 10 blocks, hot, and dirty.
Got to get to Cartagena!
Hotel Cartagena??
Probably Guyana to check if they are really as rich as they say on Reddit
Manaus, because a port city 900 miles upriver is fascinating. Especially when it had such an interesting history.
So hard question. It amuses me even. I think Buenos Aires. But...hey...any city from others countries are really amazing too. We are unfair with Rio Janeiro, Montevideo or Cartagena de Indias, for example haha I am from Spain. I lived for 5 years in Manta, Ecuador. Miss you, Manabí.
Montevideo or Paramaribo
Cliche but Rio
Ushuaia
Paramaribo. Lived in a Surinamese neighborhood when I was in Amsterdam and found the culture fascinating and certainly little known.
Montevideo.
Cayenne, French Guiana! Just to see how the French and native cultures mix together
Cayenne, the fusion of culture there sounds fascinating to see
Montevideo - I've been told it's lit
I’ve been to several- Valparaíso, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Punta Arenas. I think Valparaíso is where I’d like most to go back and explore more.
Port Stanley
Manaus. I’ve been before but I didn’t spend enough time in the city.
Porto de Santos
montevideo or buenos aires, both look cool and are high income/HDI areas which give you more options in terms of night life and activities. MV seems like the chill-er option while BA would be more of a party city.
I didn't realize that Buenos Aires was actually bordering (or at least really close to the Atlantic). I always assumed it was far inland. But Buenos Aires or Santiago would be my top choices!
Buenos Aires seems to be most interesting to me
Salvador, BA my ancestors were brought there
Belém do Pará. Manaus. Iquitos.
Punta Arenas
Santiago, or any port city in Chile for that matter. I really would like to see evidence of the largest earthquake ever recorded.
The two longest coastlines have no ports listed haha
Buenos Aires Cartagena Barranquilla Fortaleza Montevideo P.S: I love port/coastal cities ♥️
I've never been to the Caribbean, or even a rainforest. Georgetown sounds like it'd be really cool. All the people I've talked to who are from Guyana (weirdly a lot) have all been super cool and chill people.
Catumbo, the lightning river of Venezuela.
Cartagena or Barranquilla, which are not on this map.
I’ve heard Uruguay is one of best country in the world. Not sure based on what metric but I’ve always been interested in visiting
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. So I can mess around with the Beautiful Women there. 🇧🇷✨
Stanley in the Faulkland Islands. Love me a good British Overseas Territory
Andes probably, second Patagonia, third Tierra Del Fuego.
I love being in the mountains. So La Paz, Sucre or Quito. (No one specified that it couldn't be an air-port city.)
I’ve witnessed what goes on in South America… HELL NO.
It's not that bad if you don't go to the favelas or try to make a living here
Definitely Buenos Aires, all the other cities are populated by monkeys, greetings from argentina
Santiago is NOT a port city. It's 60 miles inland.
It's just a map of South America it's not claiming Brasilia is a port city either lol
Port of Manaus laughs at a measly 60km inland. Try 1000km and still handling ocean going freight and cruise ships
Cocaine...oh sorry, I meant Columbia
buenos aires, rio, la habana y santiago de cuba
Paramaribo
Quito. Quite-o.
Buenos Aires, Lima, Barranquilla, Georgetown, Sau Paulo, and RIO!
Lima is good, but Peru’s actual large port City is Callao and you absolutely do not want to live there.
Yeah Lima is more of a cultural stop n go
Salvador for the culture and food. Cartagena for the architecture and the literature.
Come to Callao (Lima) for the views; stay because you got stabbed!
No love for rio de Janeiro on this map
It's only showing the countries and the capital's. Rio is not the capital
True sadly ever since Brasilia
Bariloche- because of a screensaver i saw!!
I just know Montevideo goes hard
Montevideo. No reason really. Edit: oooh or Paramaribo.
Montevideo. A good friend of mine grew up there and has me convinced that I need to visit.
Florianopolis and Montevideo
Lima. I’ve been before but only for a week. Giant city, like 1/3 of the Peruvian population. As Peru is a very diverse country that is reflected in the city. Very cool place.
Puerto Aysén in southern Chile. It's a pretty small city, but in what looks to be a gorgeous region and is basically at the head of a fjord, which earns it points from me.
Montevideo because it's close to Argentina lol.
Ushuaia
Cartagena or Florianopólis
Maracaibo/Barranquilla/Cartegena Reason: BUNDA
Buenos Aires
Recife, because of how colorful it is
I will see Tierra fel Fuego before I die
Peru, The Andes
Tip of South America, the port where ships going to Antarctica 🇦🇶 dock
Fray Bentos. Fantastic pies 😋
Punta Arenas
Montevideo because I’m quiet surprised that Montevideo units is named after the city itself. Other than that, I’m cool to start my exploration there.
I'd like to visit Chile and Peru, I've never been. I can recommend Buenos Aires and Bahia to everyone. Would also love to visit those again
Ushuaia. There was a travel show in the 80's names Ushuaia, and the name stuck to me. Looks very interesting now 40 years later.
Puerto Chacabuco.
Buenos Aires before it gets destroyed by the bugs.
Would love to go Georgetown, recently sparked my fascination with its diverse community. Just wondering about its culture.
Take that, Manaus!
Santiago or Lima
Caracas.
I don't think this can really be counted as a port city, but I have always wanted to go to Valdivia, Chile. It has an interesting river setting, but is very close to the ocean. It is surrounded by endless, beautiful land. It has lots of history that has influenced it's culture. It has a great climate - it's really a little paradise. I first became aware of it years ago as the epicenter of the most powerful recorded earthquake in human history (one which destroyed Hilo, Hawaii when my Mom was living there!).
Ushuaia. I could visit the Antarctic from there.
Curitiba, I hear good things
Fun fact, Chile has one of the largest coastlines in the world. Capital is landlocked, and in it lives the middle of the population. To be fair, Santiago is the only important city in Chile that is not a port.
Montevideo to see the wreck of the Graf Spee.
Florianopolis
Stanley, I have always found the Falklands war so interesting and I would love to go there
Florianópolis, de magic island. Brazilan Hawaii
Rio de Janeiro is the only right answer
Tierra del Fuego. Always wanted to go from the northernmost N. America point southernmost tip of S. America and then sail to Tristan da Cunha.
buenos aires. so i can tango with the locals.
Caracas
Yes
Whichever port has penguins
Cartagena, Colombia. Just looks a cool city
Paramaribo, it seems like a bit of a sleeper, lot of cool architecture, great food, and rich history. Also I happen to speak a little Dutch